Senior Controls Reliability Engineer — Robotics Diagnostics Lead

Boston Dynamics; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Annual bonus

Job summary

Boston Dynamics is scaling its Atlas robotics fleet and seeks a Controls Reliability Engineer to bridge field operations and engineering. You will lead investigations into complex control and hardware issues, analyze robot logs, and develop automated diagnostic scripts in Python and C++ to prevent failures.

Join a hands-on role that combines hardware interaction in our Waltham lab with software tooling to improve fleet reliability and diagnostics across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, ME/EE, CS, or related field.
• 1–4 years of professional robotics, hardware reliability (SRE), or high-level technical support for complex electromechanical systems.
• Proven experience debugging complex systems using log analytics and on-robot diagnostic tools.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python for system analysis and tool development.

Responsibilities

• Advanced Controls Debugging: lead investigations for complex controls and behavioral issues escalated from Fleet Operations.
• Analytics, Testing & Reproduction: analyze telemetry for anomalies in control stability and sensor performance; write unit tests and improved detection logic.
• Software & Tooling Development: develop automated Python diagnostic scripts and C++ utilities and unit tests.
• Scalable Diagnostics: maintain automated diagnostic suites and formalize knowledge into Playbooks for field teams.
• Technical Reporting: distill complex failure modes into high-signal reports for senior engineers.

Skills

Controls theory

Embedded systems

Python for data analysis

Technical reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, ME/EE, CS, or related field

Tools

C++

Python

Bazel

Google Test

SQL

Snowflake

Looker

Apache Airflow

Job description

Boston Dynamics is scaling its Atlas robotics fleet and seeks a Controls Reliability Engineer to bridge field operations and engineering. You will lead investigations into complex control and hardware issues, analyze robot logs, and develop automated diagnostic scripts in Python and C++ to prevent failures.

Join a hands-on role that combines hardware interaction in our Waltham lab with software tooling to improve fleet reliability and diagnostics across the organization.